
A charming pixel art platform adventure, reminiscent of the good old 16-bit days. Served as the foundation for the retro-platformer Tiny Thor.
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The terrible "Szymon Spitfire" sends his armada of monsters to the small village of "Vivid Island". Of all things, a little boy, armed only with a hammer, is the only one brave enough to stand up to the evil.
Use the power of your hammer as you travel to four mystical lands. In 40 huge levels you will encounter dozens of enemies and dangerous bosses.
Collect precious green and red jewels, explore the world and discover secrets.
Oh, and did I mention the really great soundtrack, inspired by the glorious sound of the 8- and 16-bit console era?
The retro game you've been waiting for. Are you ready for a fantastic adventure?
16-Bit Pixel-Art Platformer
Nostalgic Soundtrack
Use your hammer to defeat enemies
Explore 40 handcrafted levels divided into 4 huge worlds
Discover secrets and collect gems
Make sure to also look into the spiritual successor of Hammer Kid: Tiny Thor.
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Languages: English*, German**languages with full audio support
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Игра 'Hammer Kid' – это приятный пиксельный платформер с простой, но затягивающей механикой забивания врагов молотом. Графика выполнена в ретро-стиле и вызывает ностальгию, а музыкальное сопровождение отлично дополняет атмосферу. Управление интуитивно понятное, и уже через несколько минут можно уверенно бегать и крушить противников. Главный герой – маленький, но отважный мальчик с молотом, который должен спасти мир от злобных монстров. Уровни достаточно разнообразны, и каждый новый мир предлагает новые типы врагов и испытания. Хотя сложность постепенно возрастает, игра остается доступной и не вызывает раздражения. Несмотря на визуальную простоту, 'Hammer Kid' обладает приятной реиграбельностью. Собирание секретов и поиск новых путей прохождения уровней добавляют глубины игровому процессу. Из недостатков можно отметить небольшую продолжительность, однако, учитывая цену, это вполне простительно. В целом, 'Hammer Kid' – это отличный выбор для тех, кто ищет простой, но увлекательный платформер в ретро-стиле. Игра способна скрасить несколько часов и подарить положительные эмоции. Рекомендую к ознакомлению.
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Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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If you hate pressing UP to jump, both WSAD and arrow keys are active at the same time. So you can for example use arrows to move, W to jump and X for hammering. Which is what I did (also note you can toss your hammer if you hold down Attack button). Also I genuinely don't understand the choice to have inescapable pits you can get softlocked in??? You can just restart the level but... still. EDIT: I was referring to a specific gem collectible in level 3. Turns out you CAN escape that pit with a carefully timed double jump, it's just very precise. This is still a bit of a rough edge in my opinion, but it's much less of a problem if you know it's doable. Still, for a free game it is pretty good - it is a full sized game (haven't beaten it yet but it seems like there's 3-4 hours of content here, more if you're going for a 100%), the gameplay is mostly pretty polished and pixel art is nice. If you like platformers there is no reason to not play this. The level design is decent enough, and it does have a real save system. Pretty cool.
Even though is very generic and bare bones, Its free and it delivers what it promises and its competent. This game was the base for Tiny Thor and does make me want buy it, will have to investigate the differences between them, because if there is one critique hay would have for this competent and free game, it would be null story telling
Jogo divertido com excelente trilha sonora, um game bem elaborado, parabéns ao desenvolvedor, 100% recomendado.
Veľká škoda, že achievementy tejto plošinovky nie sú viazané na dokončenie všetkých úrovní a oblastí, pretože jednoduchšie je ich získať cez grind a neustále opakovanie prvých dvoch úrovní. Nič ma potom príliš nemotivovalo ju dokončiť a prejsť ďalej ako za prvú oblasť, ale to viac hovorí o mne ako o kvalite hry. Čo bolo ale celkom zvláštne, nie je možné jednotlivé úrovne po ich dokončení opakovať a na vyzbieraných minciach, zelených a červených drahokamoch ani na rýchlosti dokončenia úrovne vôbec nezáleží a ani ich nie je možné sledovať. Tieto hodnoty sa sa nikde neukladajú, okrem "zhrnutia" na konci každého levelu, nie je tu žiadna výsledková tabuľa ani nič podobné a ani neslúžia ako herná mena. Samozrejme okrem účelu huntenia achievementov, mám pocit, že ich vôbec nemá zmysel zbierať.
Nostaljik bir platform macerası arayanlar için harika bir seçenek. 16-bit tarzı grafikler ve retro müzikle donatılmış, 40 seviyelik keyifli bir deneyim sunuyor. Klasik platform severler için ideal. Kesinlikle tavsiye ederim.
"Hammer Kid" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Tiny Thor". Tiny Thor is an abysmally failed product, one of literally SEVENTEEN THOUSAND 2D retro platformers infesting Steam, with lacklustre pixel art, derivative design, and no players, because it was a failure. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Tiny Thor, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Hammer Kid" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out an eye watering TWENTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS on buying the full "Tiny Thor" failed and playerless product... and I don't recommend you do. Twenty bucks and they can't even do computer game graphics properly... what a joke. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 10 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts. [quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says: [quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote] The developer pretends this advertisement has nothing to do with the product it's advertising when caught out dumping advertisements on Steam and ignoring the correct process for publishing game demos. Of course it does not matter how long the advertisement is, what matters is that it is an advertisement, and in this case an advertisement that was overwhelmingly rejected by gamers for being the garbage it is. SteamDB does not lie, no matter how angry and hostile this failed developer gets. When called out for this harmful behaviour the developer immediately resorts to direct, hostile personal attacks against this reviewer for nothing other than stating a truth his immature and emotionally stunted mind cannot cope with. This mental deficiency explains the terrible quality of this failed advertisement, but does not excuse it. Insults, slurs and profanity make it clear who this developer is. His pathetic, incoherent attempt to make this game review about me instead of accepting his failure tells us all we need to know about him and why this advertisement failed. Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I cannot recommend this garbage advertisement for a garbage product to anyone.
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Fun little game! I'm on level 10 right now, but I plan on 100%ing it. The hit system is a little annoying and I'm having issues with the bee boss right now. I also do not like that restart level is at the top of the pause screen instead of continue, as I have accidentally restarted levels millions of times when I wanted to continue. Overall, it's good for a free game, and I think you should play it if you like platformers, and games with easy and fun achievements.
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